Fifty-six years ago, Merle Haggard started a seven-week run at the top of the chart with his second hit live album.

Cash had lost his voice the night before. Haggard was 20 and doing time.

Even without being able to ask Merle Haggard myself, I would assume that nothing in his life ever felt quite like the day he was released from San Quentin prison. Through the thrills of becoming a ...

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway. This ...

At 73, two years removed from lung surgery, and two months from a related chest infection, Merle Haggard should be at home recuperating on his idyllic 189-acre ranch near California’s ...

On performing at the music festival in Patchogue, he said, “It feels great. I’m glad there are country fans in the North East. I’m glad that every region in the United States has a good country music ...

A man with hidden depths buried inside his hidden depths, Haggard said towards the end of the film that he had struggled his whole life to achieve his aim of being “self-contained, totally”. He wasn't ...

Merle Haggard will be the featured guest at Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday, but this will be an appearance for the Oildale-bred music legend like none before. Haggard's "concert" will be almost all ...

Born in 1937, Merle Haggard—nicknamed "The Hag"—was a man made for country music. Growing up in California during the Great Depression had Haggard, who passed in 2016 at the age of 79, living in a ...